US President-elect Donald Trump has decided to appoint Tulsi Gabbard as US Director of National Intelligence. This is stated in a message from Trump’s team on the transfer of power, which Meduza received on November 13. The statement said former congresswoman Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard has broad support from both the Republican and Democratic parties.

The Paris prosecutor's office demanded that the leader of the parliamentary faction of the National Rally party, Marine Le Pen, be deprived of the right to be elected to government for five years, BFMTV reported on November 13. The prosecutor's office also asks that Le Pen be sentenced to five years in prison, two of which suspended, and also impose a fine of 300 thousand euros.

The names of most of the defendants have disappeared from the website of the 2nd Western District Military Court in Moscow, Mediazona reported on November 13. In the cards of criminal cases considered by the court, opposite the names of the defendants there is a note “Information hidden.” The names disappeared from the files of cases initiated under “terrorist charges”, mainly under the article on “justification of terrorism” due to publications on the Internet.

Peanut the squirrel, which New York State officials euthanized in early November to test for rabies, was found to be free of the disease. This was announced by the head of Chemung County in New York, Chris Moss, writes Associated Press on November 13. “I understand that people want to speak out. But at the end of the day, I think you have to realize the seriousness of the problem of rabies infecting people. That's state protocol as reported to the county," Moss said ( as quoted by NBC News).

The Gulag History Museum announced that it will temporarily suspend work starting November 14. A message about this appeared on the museum’s website on the evening of November 13. “As a result of an inspection of the museum by specialists from the Center for Expertise, Research and Testing in Construction [of the City of Moscow], fire safety violations were identified.

Your browser does not support the audio element. 15 years since the death of Sergei Magnitsky, the lawyer who exposed the corruption of Putin’s security forces. Is it true that all Western sanctions against the Russian Federation grew out of his case? On November 16, 2009, Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer who uncovered a scheme to steal billions of rubles from the Russian budget by security forces, died in the Moscow pre-trial detention center “Matrosskaya Tishina”.

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee Asif William Rahman has been detained in connection with the disclosure of secret documents in which the United States assessed Israel's plans to strike Iran. This was reported on November 13 by The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, citing court documents and sources. U.S. District Court records on the island of Guam ( .pdf ) state that Asif Rahman is a U.S. government employee who had the highest level of security clearance.

Residents of Kursk Korenevo told the BBC about robberies in the village. There were no Ukrainian soldiers there Sergey Bobylev / RIA Novosti / Sputnik / Profimedia A serviceman of the separate special forces detachment “Arbat” (Armenian battalion) patrols a village in the combat zone in the Kursk region, November 5, 2024 After the outbreak of hostilities in the Kursk region, many houses in the village of Korenevo were destroyed and looted, local residents told the BBC Russian Service.

Photo Evan Vucci / AP / Scanpix / LETA Current US President Joe Biden met at the White House with Donald Trump, who won the presidential election. The meeting took place in the Oval Office, where Trump last visited in January 2021, leaving a two-page letter for Biden. During the meeting, Biden congratulated Trump on his victory and promised a “smooth transition of power.” “Welcome back,” the current head of state also said.

On November 13, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree “On one-time payments to certain categories of persons,” in which he instructed the Russian government to determine the amount of payments to military personnel for wounds, injuries or concussions, depending on the severity of the injury.

The Donald Trump administration will have the position of a special envoy for Ukraine, who will oversee negotiations from the US side aimed at ending the war, Fox News reports, citing sources. The name of the special envoy will be announced “soon,” the sources said.

Your browser does not support the audio element. How are opposition teachers persecuted in Russia? And how do they work under the threat of denunciations? School teachers are often spoken of as instruments of propaganda. Nevertheless, there are still teachers in Russia who do not support Putin’s policies and the war he started. They try to give students an alternative point of view on the “special operation” and repressive laws.

A beluga whale, named Valdimir, off the coast of Norway. April 26, 2019 The British broadcasting corporation BBC has released a documentary about a whale nicknamed Valdimir. The 88-minute film, Secrets of the Spy Whale, is available on BBC iPlayer and will be shown on BBC Two on the evening of 13 November. BBC News talks about it briefly.

In the Kurgan region, 68-year-old Jehovah's Witness Alexander Lubin from Shadrinsk, convicted in a case of “extremism,” died, the European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses told Mediazona. According to the publication, Lubin died on November 11. A month earlier, on October 8, the Shadrinsky District Court sentenced a pensioner to a fine of 500 thousand rubles in the case of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

And Elon Musk will “optimize” the work of the government Kevin Lamarque / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Pete Hegseth takes commentary from Donald Trump for Fox. April 6, 2017 US President-elect Donald Trump continues to select candidates for positions in his upcoming administration. On November 12, he announced his most unexpected appointment to date: Fox TV expert Pete Hegseth, who has no experience in defense policy, will become head of the Pentagon.